PreviousMonday 5 January 2004, 1:32 AM
Large and powerful vacuum
What can I tell you? I too wanted to break away from MS operating systems and the corporate control that comes with it, so I sprang for a copy of SuSE Linux since it was rated higher than the rest in a recent PC Magazine. All sexed up, looked great on paper, so I bought it. I left 10GB for the installation, which was flawless. I was also quite impressed with the GUI and desktop, very pretty -- so far so good.
Then I noticed that although my Ethernet card had been recognised I wasn't connected to the Internet. So I went to YAST (the configuration tool) and set about inputting network information, etc, etc -- still no connection; more reading, booting back to Windows to look for help (on the Internet), making pages of notes, configuring, pinging, configuring, to no avail.
No problem, I thought -- and picked up the phone to call tech support. In one word - Rude. "We only offer help on installation issues." Helloooooo??? What could be a more fundamental part of installation than connecting to the Internet? So, I sent a letter to the support people in Germany. My lightning-fast response about 10 days later was that they didn't do Internet, and that if I wanted help with configuring it would cost me $39 per hour.
Folks, I uninstalled and reinstalled three times -- wasted two weeks trying to geek myself up to the task but then I decided to do a FIXMBR to get rid of the Linux Grub booter and then erased and reformatted the two Linux partitions as FAT32. Going back to Windows 2000 after that hassle was like coming home for Thanksgiving after a long absence! How nice to see "Starting Windows" on my screen now! Believe me folks; you don't know what you've got 'til it’s gone!
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